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A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified "No-fly" records was exposed on the internet. Millions of people on no-fly and terror watchlists exposed.
If you're reading this post, there is a pretty good chance you're interested in hacking. The cybersecurity industry is booming right now, and ethical hacking is one of the most lucrative and challenging niches.
If you're reading this post, there is a pretty good chance you're interested in hacking. The cybersecurity industry is booming right now, and ethical hacking is one of the most lucrative and challenging niches.
Someone has leaked the master decryption key that Kaseya used to unlock the files encrypted by a REvil ransomware attack on the company that affected customers across 22 countries last month. While it was first thought that the key could unlock all of the REvil attacks that occurred at the same time as the Kaseya one, it soon became clear to researchers that the decryptor - which appeared to some to be genuine - was only for the files locked in the Kaseya attack.
Russia has put forward a draft convention to the United Nations ostensibly to fight cyber-crime. The proposal, titled "United Nations Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes," [PDF] calls for member states to develop domestic laws to punish a far broader set of offenses than current international rules recognize.
According to a new Sophos Home survey, forty-five percent of consumers say they're more at risk of being hit by an attack now than they were before the pandemic, and 61% believe their household could be the target of an attack in the next year. Many consumers are uninformed about online security.
Verifiable credentials provide a tamper-secure way for users to prove their identity online, without sacrificing their safety, privacy, or security during the process. Based on a new web standard approved by the W3C in 2019, verifiable credentials are the digital equivalents of the paper documents we carry in our wallets and use to prove who we are in the physical world.
NortonLifeLock announced that the Norton Security Universal Windows Platform app will be pre-installed on select new Lenovo laptop PCs. Expanding its collaboration of more than two decades, NortonLifeLock will help protect Lenovo's always-on, always-connected laptops, including the Yoga 5G, IdeaPad 5G and IdeaPad 4G LTE, bringing a trusted level of security to consumers. Last year, Lenovo paved the way for 5G-connected laptops with the introduction of the innovative Yoga 5G. Now, with the release of the mainstream IdeaPad 5G and IdeaPad 4G LTE models earlier this year, Lenovo expands consumers' options and access to the freedom of all-day, anywhere connectivity.
Criminals have hacked into a Gumtree-style website used for buying and selling firearms, making off with a 111,000-entry database containing partial information from a CRM product used by gun shops across the UK. The Guntrader breach earlier this week saw the theft of a SQL database powering both the Guntrader. Uk buy-and-sell website and its electronic gun shop register product, comprising about 111,000 users and dating between 2016 and 17 July this year.
Cognito launched Cognito Flow, a global identity verification and compliance system. Cognito Flow provides the full stack of online verification requirements for global business customers, including scanning and verifying passport and driver's license verifications, liveness checks, risk flags, and more, and can do it instantly across hundreds of countries.